Two-Gun Western Novels Magazine

This is issue three, volume two of Two-Gun Western Novels Magazine (April 1942), a pulp western publication featuring four fiction works. The lead novel is "When a Texas Town Goes Gun-Crazy" by George M. Conklin, depicting a young man named Hallock joining notorious gunfighters including Wild Bill Hickok on the frontier, only to become trapped in a cycle of violence after his first killing. "Empty Saddles Mean War!" by Morse Chandler presents Kid McCord's pursuit of hardened criminality at a hideout called Soldados. "The Kid from Damnation Valley" by James P. Olsen follows Satan King and seven wanted men emerging from their valley refuge. The issue includes two short stories: "No Manbreakers Wanted!" by W. H. B. Kent about badmen pursued by bounty hunter John Stark, and "Borrowed Bullets" by Ralph Berard, featuring race gunman Race Gordon and the Jack Rabbit Kid. All content focuses on western gunplay, outlaws, and lawmen conventions typical of the genre.